Considering the firepower at hand against him, personally I’d consider any sort of shootout to be “suicide-by-cop” but I suppose that might just be me.
Killed in a shootout should go under “killed some other way.”
Realistically, I’m thinking that the older brother was the mastermind of this operation, and Dzhokhar was always in over his head, and is ultimately a sheep and a coward. The second he’s cornered he’ll blow his brains out.
A former coworker of mine who killed a guy tried to cross the border into Canada. That’s not so far away, and going there would make getting him back require extradition, which Canada tends not to permit unless the death penalty is taken off the table, so if he’s smart and values his life, there could be some benefit to him trying that at one of the less guarded crossings (my former coworker’s mistake there).
Of course, I think suicide-by-cop is what will actually happen.
With the way the way things were handled the Chris Dorner case, I think law enforcement is going to shoot to kill if Dzhokhar even looks at a cop/agent crosseyed, or moves any body part faster than a snails pace.
That’s not the outcome I want, but I think the LEO’s are going to take absolutely zero risk.
I would rather hear from the kid himself, in his own words, about his motivation/manifesto, and accomplises, if any.
They say his brother had explosives on his body when he was killed, so my worry is that Dzhokhar is similarly equipped and will try to take some more people out with him when he kills himself.
I had the hardest time reading this and wanted to believe that your coworker used to be a Canadian border guard (or concerned citizen) who killed someone trying to sneak in from south of the border. Didn’t know it had gotten that bad up there.
I wouldn’t be surprised if some cop revenge-kills Dzhokhar on sight. He might actually live if he alerts some media (so there’s witnesses) and publicly surrenders himself at a public place. It’s possible that a good defense along the lines of “I’m the patsy, my brother was the asshole” would get him life without parole instead of the death penalty.